Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, Penn’s Treaty. 1800s.

Front of advertisement Back of advertisement Published after West’s “Penn’s Treaty with the Indians,” this advertisement used the...

Benjamin West. Penn’s Treaty with the Indians. Printed by John Boydell, June 12, 1775.

West’s portrayal of the Treaty is one of the most famous paintings of American history, and this painting served to popularize the image of the Elm—in...

Box of the Penn Treaty Elm

When the Penn Treaty Elm fell, locals took pieces of wood from the tree, and many of them turned the wood into practical objects. These Pennsylvania...

Penn's Tree, with the City and Port of Philadelphia

William Birch. Penn’s Tree, with the City & Port of Philadelphia. 1800. Over 250 years old in the early 1800s, the great Elm was one...

The Delaware Nation v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

In 2004, the Delaware (another name for the Lenape) Nation, one of three federally recognized modern day Lenape communities, filed a lawsuit against the Commonwealth of...

Goudey Indian Gum Trading Card #56 William Penn. 1933.

Front of trading card Back of trading card This trading card, one...

L.C.W. The treaty tree old and young. n.p., n.d.

Cover This brief publication tells a fictitious story of the Penn Treaty in what appears to be Quaker propaganda. At the beginning of the story, a...

F. Bourquin & Co. The Belt of Wampum delivered by the Indians to William Penn at the ‘Great Treaty’ under the Elm Tree at Shackamaxon in 1682. n.d.

The Wampum Belt depicted in this print is the only physical evidence that can be linked back to the Treaty. The image...